What an incredibly soft, almost undetectable nose. Just wisps of vanilla swirled into bread, a vanilla sweet bread if you will. The taste does an interesting dance with your tongue, cascading to the corners of your mouth and coating the taste buds like a warm pat of butter. With it, it carries some almond and brown sugar. The finish is relatively long as your taste buds ride out the sweetness and it ends with a barely detectable fragrant bread like character, like the inner portion of warm French Bread. Balvenie, you never disappoint. Except maybe in the price tags of your bottles but for a dram this tasty, I can ignore my pragmatism for one night.